Nation: SIX QUALITIES THAT MAKE A PRESIDENT

WRITING his memoirs in the serenity of his Little Gettysburg office sits
the most influential Republican of them all. There had been reports
that Dwight Eisenhower favored, and was quietly promoting, Michigan's
Governor George Romney for next year's G.O.P. presidential nomination.
But Ike insists that this is not so, that he prefers no one man to
another-and that, in any event, he will not try to swing or sway the
1964 Republican convention toward anyone.

This does not mean that Ike is not interested. He is. He makes it clear
that Rockefeller, Goldwater,...